Category: Broadcast Journalism

Tags: The, extraordinary, life, and, successful, career, of, Don, Hewitt

August 23, 2009 - Morley Safer, Steve Kroft and Lesley Stahl and Andy Rooney look back at the extraordinary life and successful career of television pioneer and 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt. Donald Shepard "Don" Hewitt (December 14, 1922 -- August 19, 2009) was an American television news producer and executive, best known for creating 60 Minutes, the CBS television news magazine, in 1968, which at the time of his death, was the longest-running prime-time broadcast on American television. Under Hewitt's leadership, 60 Minutes was the only news program ever rated the nation's top-ranked television program, an achievement it accomplished five times. Hewitt produced the first televised presidential debate in 1960.

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